Country
Canada
Year
2025
Screening format
16 mm
Duration
14'
Synopsis
“as you flee your body
reunited with your beloved
drifting, rebuilding worlds together
returning to that distance
that emerged during the final days
of these wedding songs”
Nehemia Mota 1598(?)
In 16th century Shingly (Kochi, Kerala) Kabbalist Nehemiah Ben Abraham Mota was rumoured to have the power of levitation. This film assembles the ruinous remnants of the places where these and other miracles occurred.
His legacy are a series of wedding songs precariously assembled and archived, danced to by an interfaith following who worship him as a village deity.
Using celluloid processed by hand, wedding songs is a collaboration with Mota’s light and the body of the film.
Super8mm, hand processed colour/black and white, blown up by the artists to 16mm
